TY - BOOK AU - Schulmann,Robert AU - Rowe,David E. TI - Einstein on politics: his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, zionism, war, peace, and the bomb SN - 9780691120942 AV - B QC 16 E35 2007 U1 - 530.092 PY - 2007/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton university press KW - Einstein, Albert, KW - Einstein, Albert KW - 1879-1955 KW - Ethics KW - Religion N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-514) and index; The first world war and its impact, 1914-1921 -- Science meets politics : the relativity revolution, 1918-1923 -- Anti-semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 -- Internationalism and European security, 1922-1932 -- Articles of faith, 1930-1933 -- Hitler’s Germany and the threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 -- The fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 -- The Second World War, nuclear weapons, and world peace, 1939-1950 -- Soviet Russia, political economy, and socialism, 1918-1952 -- Political freedom and the threat of nuclear war, 1931-1955 N2 - "In Einstein on Politics, leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einstein’s most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little-known Einstein - not the ineffectual and naive idealist of popular imagination, but a principled, shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410275003 ER -